English Literature

This free essay addresses William Golding's Lord of the Flies novel which reveals the alternative to the standard definition of morality that society uses continuously.

In Oxford there used to be a remote lodging, owned by carpenter who accommodated lodgers among them a brilliant scholar called Nicholas who wanted to be an expert in Astronomy

The book is just like a fairy tale where Alice is reading a book with her sister and all of a sudden she feels like reading is tiresome and at this point, she decides to find more forms of direct experience.

Play Hamlet by Shakespeare revolves around the actions of royal characters and how these serve to shape the lives of the ordinary people. The play aptly brings out this motif as the ruling class exploits the lower ones to achieve their own ends.

Hamlet was the son of the late King Hamlet and a nephew to the reigning King Claudius. He can be described as an enigma because no matter in how many ways he is analyzed there is no absolute truth that emerges from his character.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock well-known as Prufrock (Eliot), is a poem written by an American-British poet T.S. Eliot completed in 1910 or 1911 but published until 1915. This is one of the most influential songs of the 20th century.

Dorian's transformation is quite phenomenal in that he starts feeling guilty about the actions he did. He could not handle the propensity of how he had done.

Walter Pater is a pioneering author on the principles of aestheticism, and his influential and popular work, The Renaissance, advanced the impression that art should be viewed as an end, and advocates hedonism as the right path to life.

The hedonistic influence of Lord Henry prompts Dorian to explore his sensuality. At this time, his morals had not been corrupted. However, upon discovering the beautiful actress...

Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought concepts about the traditional way of life in England. The writer was the first to explore the issue of aesthetic lifestyle.

How can one define if a certain book is a specimen of literary classics? With Pride and Prejudice, this would be simple: it has won universal critical acclaim, it can boast innumerable translations and adaptations, and it is still actively read.

An examination of Francis Bacon's Novum Organum frontispiece is bound to reveal ships leaving the Mediterranean destined to the vast waters of the Atlantic.

Araby is a fictional short story set in Dublin. It is a blend of well-chosen words put together in a sensitive and aesthetic artistic manner by its author James Joyce.

Hamlet is the son of Queen Gertrude and late King Hamlet; he is also nephew to the current King, Claudius, who was a student at the University of Wittenberg. Hamlet is debated as the most dramatic character ever made.

In the book, Russell has used evil tools to create a distinction between those in authority and those who are subject to the leaders. Russell in her work quotes that: The sparrow still falls because of the evils were done.

Pope published An Essay on Man in order to show how God used rational ways to man, in order to show him how someone should not be blamed for a mistake he did not commit.

The article that was discussed in this paper is entitled Edwin Arlington Robinson and it was written by William J.Scheick. To be more precise, the discussions below dwell on the poem, Richard Cory found within the article.

The character's manifestation in the contemporary context would show they behave in the same way. Only that this time it would be so evident and they would not be in a position to hide their characters from the audience.

Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women of her time who had tremendous influence on how the women were perceived in the 19th century. During that time, women were considered to be unequal to men...